Farmers' Comments...

90 Aug-Nov 2014 Vol 23-2

Price £4.35

See how you can make a road washer attachment for any slurry tanker. Fill the tank with water in the normal way and then fit the water bar on the outlet. Pressure the tank, open the valve, and the spray blasts mud from the road surface and washes it to the side.

Tom Lanigan from Ireland who sent us the idea says it works splendidly. He made it in the farm workshop. It took him a few hours only.

ISSUE CONTENTS #90 Vol 23 Issue 2

More milk from grass - the pre-mowing method developed by this Devon farmer results in a herd average of 5,900L completely off grass. The cost savings over cake means the spring calving herd of 60 cows on 80 acres of grass support two families

Cover Story 2

Bale handling in a busy period. With five big balers spring and summer is hectic for our contributor, who has made some ingenious grabs and handlers which stack... on the trailer ... in the shed ... in curtainsiders for export sales ... on road trailers